I wonder if one side I very low power emitter designed to connect to the other head-side unit, presumably designed to connect to your device. Some bt headphones are designed with a weak unit and strong unit.
Correlation of even anonymized hardware emissions and location history for commercial use such as advertising would eventually identify police or company specific hardware. A product for this purpose already exists in Signaltrace, and probably exists as an in house solution for large campus operators like Walmart, universities, or a place like HP.
Apparently if I’m reading the work of others correctly a notification component and subsequent other interaction logs, in this case that the notification was not generated, is also logged in knowledgeC pointing to at least some metadata of non-notified messages logged.
I’ve been looking into reproducing the extraction of unredacted data. Found this, and it’s speculative, but Magnet Forensics has an internal “infomercial” on reconstructing content from notifications, too.
“find the inclusion of this information interesting because there is a chance that this still contains communications even when the record has been deleted from the sms.db file. I've yet to find definitive proof that this is the case however and it's possible that it is purged at the same time as sms.db is cleared.”
Looking at the detritus in the filesystem on Jailbroken iOS devices you will observe that iOS decides to vacuum, purge, and let linger all sorts of databases and logs until something triggers a cleanup which is usually time or an iCloud sign-out induced erase and subsequent sync. People have been complaining for years about excessive phantom “system storage” and “other data.” Interestingly the photos thumbs database can grow seemingly indefinitely in size for some weeks or more if you’re regularly deleting all of your photos and saving to photos from apps or taking photos. I suspect that there a lot of behavioral data records that is left on most devices until a convenient period of inactivity passes and the possible user behavior analysis and reporting functions of iOS allow whatever cleanup happens after processing on device. It would be useful to capture iCloud backup restores from physical devices to corellium virtual devices with some creative matching of your existing idevices identifiers. Could see what triggers a cleanup during backups, local or otherwise, get a good look at what is being restored from iCloud. I also think it’s possible that iCloud can sync a database, say safari bookmarks, pushing it to the device inducing a state where the device bookmarks are moved to inaccessible tables and left there, unavailable to the end user, but not out of sync with the current active session state. Of course this is just my musing based on observations of weekly ffs extractions of a few devices over the last 5 years.
Is there a precedent for this message in particular? Instead of just regular 404 like they do for DMCA and government security takedowns there is a note on the page. Perhaps it is a warning designed to indicate that there is an issue when someone goes to investigate why the url is broken.
I went to go look at what the GSA and feds do for QB and ran into something new to me. Many companies that license software will offer terms for a special contract and perpetual licensing.
But then in the new order[0] “recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) indicates that agencies buy and manage software licenses in a decentralized manner, struggle to create accurate inventories, often purchase unneeded capabilities, and generally do not facilitate better purchasing by sharing pricing or terms and conditions across the Government. Furthermore, most agencies do not have a designated central oversight authority to manage software agreements. This memorandum addresses these and other challenges in information technology
And
“ Enterprise Software Category Team (ESCT),6 co-managed by the General Services Administration (GSA), the Department of Defense (DoD), and OMB, will
guide the development of Government-wide software license agreements for mandatory agency use, and OMB will encourage or direct use of best-in-class existing software licensing
agreements. This memorandum further requires agencies to develop implementation plans, in accordance with ESCT guidance, to address how agencies will move from their existing agreements to those mandated by the ESCT. Agencies must also justify and obtain ESCT approval to pursue new agreements that overlap or conflict with the ESCT mandated agreements.”
It goes on.
Perpetual licenses are a good idea to have as an option because the company or product might disappear, or in some cases, as I have seen, a company will refuse to sell a licensed version of something for less than benevolent reasons.
We can all appreciate the efficiency of adding more bureaucracy and lawyers (general counsel) and layers of managers (the various committees you now have to wrangle into agreement).
It occurred to me though that part of the utility of small group acquisitions is that different organizations can buy what they need or want when they decide to without this mess, and the licensing can be arranged to suit the need of that organization. I think this also damages the small seller or company that makes niche programs. Perhaps my business gets contracts from small specialized government teams and groups because it’s a better option for them than the Microsoft sized competition, and now they have to deal with the additional mess of justifying this purchase in addition to being on the same contract terms and volume purchase agreements with the Microsoft sized companies as say the entire IRS.
So, my quickbooks compatible software for managing and displaying old versions’ files used by a dozen people in Navy purchasing is at odds with a license from quickbooks used by IRS to allow examiners access to older versions. My income becomes maintenance fees to QB. (This is hypothetical)
I started getting “unknown” message requests on three unrelated phone numbers through my different signal accounts on Jan 24 2024. The contact info doesn't have a phone number, crypto scams.
I guess this is the result of the beta. See screenshot please.
I doubt anyone here would say this directly so I will: the csam charge is an assured way to punish this man without a trial about the other issues. If CIA planted CSAM on a computer they would do it in such a way as to comport with the expectations of a forensic examination, by legal standards.
An organization that commits crimes in other countries to do their job, and commits crimes possibly in America regularly, wouldn’t frame someone? Why? They can frame an undesirable politician in another country, but not someone who betrayed their trust and committed an act of aggression and treason from within? That’s laughable.
If you’re in the USA you can follow the steps I followed to get my old email back as I’ll list below. Yahoo customer service by phone is a paid service though, so be prepared to spend $5-$12 depending on whatever their system decides. You get a month of phone support service tho.
Go to
https://recovery.yahoo.com/
Fill out your email, call the phone number and provide them the code. If they tell you they can’t find alternate ways to verify your account set up a phone call more than 12 hours later and re start the process. I had to do this three times 10-24 hours apart before their system would let them use a secondary form of account verification. The number for recovery suppprt is +18007417610
There is an audio interview, linked on HN, in one of the comments I can’t find, about the crazy story of tk domains involving gun running and drug smuggling, freedom getting sued by Facebook for tk abuse and so on. It was very interesting to hear dotcom bust millionaire stories from a user here.
Have this instead “How a Tiny Pacific Island Became the Global Hub of Cybercrime”
Archive.is or whichever tld they are using today is much more lax on content moderation. I have yet to encounter an administrator-banned domain restricted from public (or any?) access there. Because archive submissions are user initiated the scope of content at archive.today is more limited, but it also displays what pages users found worth archiving.
Long term the reliability of archive.today seems to be in question. I believe the owner is mostly privately funded, but I wonder if that has changed as other parties took interest.
Service status page [0] at apple support indicates no current outages and the three resolved from today are purchase/itunes related. Do you have an indicator showing stuff is down?